- Messages
- 978
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- People. Noise. Swearing. Many foods.
If I’m honest I hadn’t really thought about it before.
My blood sugar always hovered around 57-67 and usually at the lower end of the scale and my diet didn’t vary. I always felt in “control”. Or at least I thought I was.
I’m 52, I’ve had two strokes, I have anxiety disorder, am Autistic and have Fibromyalgia. Diabetes was just another “thing”. But this year my stress levels, always high, exploded and I contemplated suicide, as in actually planned it, in late summer.
Then I got two hernias, one hiatus, one umbilical and when they decided to operate on the latter my hba1c reading came back as 78! I’ve never been that high, not close to it. So my operation was postponed until I got it below 70. I tested yesterday as 79!.
I try so hard and my diet, as I say, has never varied in the three or four years since diagnosis. But this has come as a real blow. It’s just caused me yet more stress and anxiety which, I know, don’t help.
For the first time, being Diabetic is really depressing me especially when I have such a narrow range of foods I can eat to begin with.
I’m really dreading 2019 before it’s started!
My blood sugar always hovered around 57-67 and usually at the lower end of the scale and my diet didn’t vary. I always felt in “control”. Or at least I thought I was.
I’m 52, I’ve had two strokes, I have anxiety disorder, am Autistic and have Fibromyalgia. Diabetes was just another “thing”. But this year my stress levels, always high, exploded and I contemplated suicide, as in actually planned it, in late summer.
Then I got two hernias, one hiatus, one umbilical and when they decided to operate on the latter my hba1c reading came back as 78! I’ve never been that high, not close to it. So my operation was postponed until I got it below 70. I tested yesterday as 79!.
I try so hard and my diet, as I say, has never varied in the three or four years since diagnosis. But this has come as a real blow. It’s just caused me yet more stress and anxiety which, I know, don’t help.
For the first time, being Diabetic is really depressing me especially when I have such a narrow range of foods I can eat to begin with.
I’m really dreading 2019 before it’s started!